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VOLUME III
LA GRANn.. OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1904.
NUMBER 149 '
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CONGRESS ADJOURNS
SINE DIE YESTERDAY
Panama Cana! Bill Passed Leaving ths. Control
and Management to President4 ;
Roosevelt.
, Washington, April 2S Congress ad
journed this afternoon eine did.
Matters of minor Importance emerge
iug from conference were disposed of.
Among the moat important acts this
morning waB the agreement on the con
ference report on a jpunama canal bill
osrrlug $10,000 000 appropriation, as de
Birod by the eoate, and a provision
I oving the control aud management of
the zone to the president, as decided by
the house. " '' .:
I he house refused lo order the pre
vioub question bill for the opening up
to settlement of the Wind River Indian
reservation in Wyomi g.
EXCESS OF EXPENDITURES
WhA.i th tienatd met the conference
report on tlio river and harbor, bill was
agreed to. i i i i s .
AIUhoii, chairman of the nppropria
tinna comrailtne, presented a tabulated
statement ot the approbations of pod
gruss foi the year emling July 1, 11105,
showing an excels (or the cm rent year
of $28,000,000 above estimates.
UNITKU STATUS JUDGES
TIk I reciilwit nominated tint follow
nil! t" ob jiM-jfts ui toe i mieu ni:iteB
eoiirts .n Indian Territory : Thomaa
Humphrey, (Territory); Louis 8uls
haeh r, (Missouri); V R Lawrence,
(Illinois): J T Dickeraon Kansris).
Turner Fined
Corvallis, Ore., April 28 Hon Tur
ner the young man who gave Chester
K'liuty revolver can rid gee Sunday
inrninir after Keidy hid wounded
Night Watchman Osibnrn, was sen
tenced to the cminly jii today for 60
days and fined $10.
Ankeny Wins
Wolla Walla WhIi April 27 The
followers of (Senator Levi Ankeny an
nihilated Governor MeBride In Walla
Walla County primaries today. 01 127
delegate, the lioernor will not have
over 25, .
Murry Recaptured
Word has been seut to the sheriff's
otllee from Ritzville that J J Murry,
who escaved from the officers there a
day or so ago, baa been recaptured and
ia now being held for the Pendleton
officers. Deputy Blakley will leave
this evening for that place and will
bring hie man back with him to Pendle
ton.
Benton Ccunty
Corvallis Or April 28 Twenty-two
thousand copies of a new pamphlet, de
scrlutlve of Benton County, prepared
and printed by the Citizens' League,
have been received and are to he used
for distribution in the East,
Will Hang
Waila Walla Wash April 27 The
scaffold on which Cbampoux, Seattle
wife murderer, will be haned May 6, is
ready at the sta te penitentiary. Cham
poux will be the first man to suffer cap
ital punishment under the new law
which provides for all executions at the
prison here.
THE CHICAGO STORE
THE EUSY BIG STORE.
A Few Hrices on MEN'S TROUSERS, commencing April 21 and
lasting until May I. The swellest line of Men's Trousers ever
offered in La Grande, at reduced prices. The following prices go
until May I.
Regular price S 00 Sale price 76
" 6 00 " " 5 00
" 5 00 " " 4 25
' " 4 50 " " 4 00
; " 4 00 " " 3 50
11 " 3 50 " " 3 00
" 3 00 " " 2 65
' " 2 '.0 " " 2 15
Corduroy Pants go at these prices. Call and see some of the
swellest patterns
THE CHICAGO STORE
MURPHY BRO'S., Prop's.
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Defense
Against
Germs
G AUG I AN
STRIKE
Hungarian Navvies will
Strike May II. They
Have a Qnantity of
Dynamite to Use.
Vienna, April 28 Ten thousand
Qalician and 7,000 Hungarian navvies
employed in navy building have
agreed to strike May 11, and have
Beizid a quantity of dynamite. Many
thousand dissatisfied laborers and
mechanics in private life will join the
movement.
Santa Fe Strike
Kan Bernardino, April 2a On ac
count of the strike of Santa Fe ma
cbiuists, hundreds ol miles of traek
is tiding patrolled by arm?d guards.
No disturbances Sixty-four men are
working behind a barbed wire stook
ade.
The Juniors Accept
un be hull of the Junior clans, we
the undersigned hereby accept the
challenge ol the Pernor clans to a con
test in uenatte and declamation un
Tuesday evt'iiinij May 3, 1904 in the
auditorium ot the Central School
Building.
President, lLtrry Finn; Secretary
Edna MeCall.
CRIMNAL
ASSULT
A Girl Said to
From La Grande
Mistreated by
Men Near Wasco
Hail
Cuts Flour Kate
The 0B4N announces a out on
wheat and flour rates to Utah points,
to take effeot April 29. The rate will
be 40 oenU per hundred in . straight
earload lots of a minimum ol 40,000
pounds from all points north aid e, at
of Umatilla, Ore. except Turner and
Whetstone in Washington to Utah
com mon poiots as lar south a Bandy
The former rasa was 66 cents per hun
dred and it is persumed the out is
made beoause ol a shortage of flour in
Utah. ,.
JAPANESE GAIN
STRAGETIC POINT
Cartoonist
Tbe man who baa earried the name
ot Oregoo to tbe fartberest oorner of
tbe world by bia oartoona of publio
men and events, will bj bend at
Stewards Opera house Saturday even
ing, In his illustrated lecture. .
The oareer of Davenport, who start
ed at Uilverton, Marion eounty, Ore
gnn, aa a poor farmer boy, and who by
dint of constant industry and labor
has olimbed to the highest position in
the world of newspaper sketebing
rends like a romance, and tbe keen
interest to see and bear this man is
felt in every Amcrioan uommunity,
and especially in his native state.
High Five
Ihe High five was entertained by
Mrs C H Finn and Mrs J Coy 1 9 at
the home of the former Thursday
afternoon. Mrs J C Gulling wining
fitct prize and Mrs J V Riss second
neing tne last party ot the season
delicious refreshments were served.
Those present were Mesdames Aiklne,
Rolinenkainp, Cavuna, Cnuscy, Gull
in',; Grady, Win Henry, Lilly, Mold.ni
Moore, Swnnoy, Jap Hiovens, Slack,
It -8. E E ,t.iinig,J K Itotnlg, Foley
n il Misses Ausnn West and Grady.
Russians Sink Japanese Transport and Kill
and Officers. - Japanese Ad--1
vance up Yalu.'
Men
London, April 28 Eeuter's Chee
Foo correspondent wires that the
Japanese have oooupied ' Kulieng
Cheng on tbe right bank ol tbe Yaln
south of Antung. Rtioh a move is
highly important from a strategical
standpoint, as it would mean they
would have the Russian forces on the
Yalu hemmed in on three sides: in
front would be Ihe maiu force of tbe
Japs to the east and northeastern
forces of Jsps are known to have
orossed the Yalu Monday and Tues
day and on the west the force now re
ported as occupying Kulieu CIioiir.
JAP8 LOSE A TRAN8POUT
St. Putershurs, April 28 Official
dispatches report that on Aurll 25
two nussian torpedo noats blew up
a Japanese transports at Gensan
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Korea, The transports oarried a,: ;
oargo of 400 tons of rice and military
stores, 1600 tons of ooat four Uotob .
kiss guns, 17 offioers. 20 men and 85 ,
coolies. Bixty-live sailors were oap- ,
tured. - Other Japanese offioers and
men who resisted were sunk with tbe
transport, y
JAP8 ADVANCE UP THE YALU .
Tokto, April 28 Admiraf Hosoya.:
ot the third sqndri,in,i reporting op
erations of the torpedo fleet up tbe
Yalu Monday and Tuesday, saya . the .
enemy's field guns opened without'
elfect. A foroe of ihe enemy on an T
island midstream, fled. Tuesday 100 r
lt.iselau cavalrymen attacked a Jap
anese launch. A torpedo boat AJ
iHed and the' enemy '.fled'' to the'')
mountains.' ; '"- ;!'.: "j.V-y : f-i
Eye Glasses
I)r N Newman, the European eye
specialist of I'ucatello, Idaho, will ho
here at the Foley Hone April 21) one
duy only. Those with imperfect vision
should not miss this opportunity
COUNCIL ACCEPT!
CITY HALIf LANS
J. L. Slater the Archifect.-Largeand Com
modious Building. A Credit to This
'ity and County.'
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The i ed for their
doctor also ills glasses for headaches j Grander, new city hull.
vvuj and nervousness' old age and weak eyoB
two
Watco( Oreg..u, April 28 George
Graver and Hoccoe Kobter. two (aim
haoua employed neiir Biggj, were ar
rested (urcrimiiml hhsaiiU today and
at (he preliminary hearing were bound
over iu tbe O.rcu t Court iu the sum
ol $3000 each. Their victim was
Maud Gibson, aged 17 years, who ar
rived at Biggs from La Grande Satur
day alternoon. Him started to walk
t'j her hroLher-in-Uw'a borne, about
four miles distant, when she was over
taken about half way by the men
They said they would kill her if she
told on them. Judge Lynch was
much in evidence on the streets of
Waeoo this morning but the prison-
era, who have botn c infeed will be
removed to the County Jail and the
law allowed to take its course.
All infTlimts disenff s hip urni Hm uses. Tlio germs tlirivp wlieiever
th-re is (In input ps ami tic: : y. Tlic tu tt rit fi life eguinet tliei'i is lo make
the homo so sanitary tht genua Miiivt gi't a f'it hold. All sinks, drums,
celhirs, clobPta, and other dittiKor spots tnu-it ho kopt thoronulily diMinfcc-led.
We have nil thn roli-ihle ftniij5.i''ir' nttd li.-iiiTw t,tn's. En-h has its ap
propnute use. Th quality bf f yeiythin,; -up:.ly h the liighest eud the
price is right. Critl gire yn ny t'pfi iai Hifurm-ition you nerd.
NEWLIN DRUG . CO.
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Exniuiiiution (too.
Rest Room
The members of the Rest Room as
sociation are hereby notified that
there will be a meeting of the Associa
tion next Monday afternoon at two
thiity o'clock at the Rest room. A
Iai ge attendance is desired.
T o oity council held on o.U'ntlul
and iiilerehtint; meeting hut i:iht
and it was miiluig'ht be ore liioy came
to a finnl cohcIuhIod after carefully
conhidering the muiy plant submitl-
oonMideration. for La
i...it i ...i
j umiiuc, ucn vikjt 1111,1, i 11c jjiun. nu-
opted were drawn hy our well known
fellow towusmitu J L Slater, who not
only provided for the liiru;cBt building
but tbe best arranged. The building
will bo two stories high not including
the Mnne bosempn't 83itiyi!t. all the
oBieca will constat o'fa tuit - of-'J two'
room's und the oilires of ths water
superintendent and oiy recorder will
he provided with large roomy' vaults
fur the proper protection of rooordi.
The building will be an imposing
structure a credit to the enterprise of
our cltiiens. The Observer will have
a cut of the building In a very few
days . '
The Mock Initiation will take place
this ovoning in the Annorv hull under
the auspices of the Kehecoas and tintlur
the direction ot Prof and Mrs Simpson .
Mrs A E Stephens by theiway of ap
preciation of the rervlt-e rendered pre
sented the i-a Grande Are .department
with a check for (10 yesterday.
TEACHERS MEETING
ATSUMMERVILLE
The lust hi d ierh:,i.8 "n f the most
snrcesHfnl tcarhor'fi mectinyB of the pre
ent sell no! jenr wiia lit M in Hurmuer
vllle n Saturday April KJ.
There wn a largf aitfiulaiu'e of teach
ere and friends of edu atiou present.
I he lira' on ilie proyriim wa. hii ex
Cvlliit pup' r !) "Kiidw" hy Kr-d C
Ki-her.
A J II. ndtT r-d a a cron "Nature
Study.' Ilplh-n'd 'o;nii .aluiililu aug
r',i-..- I i Ihfi- Cl.'ijt' t
".MiiK-in u if 1J t: Moduli." wan
the next Mud- ri uu In j inuiain, w hirh
Him ttincufsnt tty 1 he tcm lierf in rnt.
or Mux we' I t-Xj-laiiii'ii hi nifthodi
(if tijiichnitj lii-tury. i
In the fif'i rri'..ii the m'J' t:t of (tTtided
wn-k In ICmdiI lif'uis wae prencnv.d by
K A Wilk rwui.
M e- Ht siie Wontidl read a :ipiT on
"Odjert LetiMino M o iiclined lur
method of uaing o'ljecs in tla- ctn
room . '
jMirK Jtfile TwRiHiig read a t aper on
'Patriot in jn'onn Rdicole" eudang
"etiil iri'd.hods t.f teirhlhif patriot. tun,
II J lienhi'rrT anl evernl olherx
g .e potoc of tht-ir experieiii'9 in the
gCi'Ot-l room..-,
The M iw Ko-cteWoratell and Myrtle
Aldn ih favnro'l the meeting with some
flne vocal muajL', ,
H 3 Hockenborry hf tured fn the
venlng. " ; ;
Sample Line of Ladie's Street Hats
At Wholesale Prices.
A short time at;o we purchased a beautiful line of LADIE'S STREET HATS tho
most beautiful bata we have shown this season at 75 cents on the dollar. We will give .
yoti all the advantage of our BARGAIN, nnd place them on salo ut the regular
WHOLESALE PRICES
New Ladie's Skirts
Yesterday brought us another Lire
shipment of Indie's i-kirts, utitigislng of
Cotton aud Woul Voile, lirilliunluie,
aud many others in the puptilur Sum
mer niiiliirials.
Prints uru exceedingly low.
$1.50 to $7.50
The Newest in Waistings
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